Hands off our haka!

It’s one thing to appreciate it when it’s performed. It’s a completely different thing to use it for the purpose of comedy when you KNOW you are being culturally offensive and go so far as admit that.

It’s clear the show’s writers were well-aware of the offence the performance may have caused to the Māori community, as the boss urges them to “stop this flagrant display of cultural identity theft at once”.